The old woman made another pot of spiritual tea from the Snow Mountains of Datang, held it in her hand and took a sip.
Li Xiuyuan, who saw his fingers resting on the strings and stopped humming, said: "This heavenly music of yours has disturbed the hearts of countless people up and down the mountain..."
Li Xiuyuan thought for a while and replied: "A gentleman is magnanimous. If he has never owed anyone in his heart, how could he be tempted by a junior's unintentional song?"
The old woman was shocked when she heard this and asked in a voice, "Is it possible that your heart-wrenching sentences were not meant for those heartbroken people on the mountain?"
Shaking his head, Li Xiuyuan wiped the strings once, then put them into a cloth cover and put them away.
He took a sip of the spiritual tea that had just been placed on the table and said thoughtfully: "When I was making this spiritual tea for my seniors, I felt something in my heart and thought of my former husband... .”
"I think of my former nephew who went up the mountain to become a monk three times, and came down the mountain three times to return to secular life. Wuxin suffered from love... What do the people on the mountain have to do with me? They can't make me move."
At this point, Li Xiuyuan corrected him: "I am not Ksitigarbha in the Buddhist hall. I cannot save thousands of sentient beings in the world."
After saying that, he looked at Gongyang Bo who was heading all the way to the top of the mountain, and at Yun Qingjiao who was beside Helian Mingyue.
He murmured: "It's so good. What she lost from me, she gained by His Majesty's side."
After hearing this, Helian Mingyue held Gongyang Bo's hand and stopped, standing on the stone steps as if he had heard the truth right now, and frowned.
Asked: "Is it possible that you can just watch the fun from the bottom of the mountain?"
Li Xiuyuan replied: "The long night is so long... After you sing, I will appear on the stage and call this foreign country my hometown. Why are you so anxious? I have been a stonemason on this island for a whole winter..."
When Helian Mingyue heard this, he was stunned and speechless for a moment.
Looking at Yun Qingjiao beside her, she sighed quietly and thought to herself, since you are leaving this world, don't disturb her state of mind again.
Then he said to Gong Yangbo beside him: "The young gentleman said that he has been a stonemason on this island for a whole winter. It seems that the palace on this mountain has a share of his sweat."
Gongyang Bo sighed and said with a wry smile: "But you only look at the bottom of the mountain. Isn't there someone on the mountain waiting to see our joke?"
Helian Mingyue Feng glared and replied coldly: "He is already married and has a little princess. Doesn't he allow me to like others again? Does she think she is the master of this world?"
Gongyang Bo saw that Helian Mingyue was talking about this, and thought to himself that he was also a man.
So, you can’t be cowardly!
As soon as he thought about this, he replied calmly: "I have a premonition."
"What's the premonition? Tell me about it." After saying this, Helian Mingyue took Gongyang Bo's hand and continued to go up.
Helian Mingyue couldn't understand what the master was saying at all, so she made up her mind that she would just watch the fun today and never say a word.
Gongyang Bo replied: "When the Yunqi Temple was built, the young man didn't do it. He hired all the workers from the mountain. But when he came here, he turned into a stonemason..."
"How?" Helian Mingyue frowned.
Gongyang Bo sighed and continued: "Sir, he once said: I saw him building a tall building, watching him entertaining guests, and seeing his building collapse. How are they similar today?"
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"Seeing him building a tall building, watching him entertaining guests, watching his building falling down..."
Li Xiuyuan murmured at the foot of the mountain, looked at the old woman facing him and smiled: "Senior, if this Lotus Palace, which has been built with countless efforts, turns into ruins in one day..."
The old woman glared at him and said with a smile, "Aren't you afraid of committing evil?"
The first spring rain fell in the morning, leaving no dust on the stone steps leading to the Lotus Palace on the top of the mountain.
In front of the splendid palace, the flat bluestone floor was washed clean by a spring rain, and the lotus-shaped dome on the palace exuded a solemn atmosphere.
In front of the solemn palace, there is an altar that is not very tall. There is also a three-foot-high stone platform ten feet in front of the altar.
There are hundreds of monks, maids, and subordinates of the Queen on Fairy Island, surrounding the altar and under the high platform.
The remaining merchants, monks, coolies and masons at the foot of the mountain who were watching the ceremony, these people who were like lambs in the Queen's eyes, were still dozens of feet away from the altar and the high platform.
The square on the top of the mountain is not narrow. Even with the Lotus Palace, the altar, and the high platform, there is also a bluestone square that is hundreds of feet tall.
There may be hundreds of merchant monks sitting on the viewing platform, and there may be nearly 2,000 people including coolies and masons.
These people are forced to stay on the island and work for the Queen's palace. No one can get the antidote until the last moment, and no one can leave here.
At this moment, these poor people were praying in their hearts, each thinking about their own thoughts.
While everyone remained silent, they also looked forward to the Queen's sacrifices starting soon. They had been suffering for so many years, but they had not made any money or found the elixir.
Being able to bathe in a spiritual rain from the sky, merchants and coolies can live a long life, monks can get the opportunity to break through, and they can also make up for the suffering they have suffered over the years.
This is what ordinary people think.
No matter how painful and tiring it is, just watching the companions around me fall down and die, I still hope that one day I can leave safely.
Just when the time comes...
The queen and others came slowly from the palace and stopped in front of the altar that was already filled with tribute incense and candles.
The white-haired steward walked out from behind the queen and stared coldly at the thousands of lambs on the auditorium.
He announced loudly: "The auspicious time has arrived, please read the rites of sacrifice to heaven!"
At this moment, Yu Xian'er took her brother's hand and stepped forward, came to the altar, lit incense candles, and burned yellow paper.
Yu Mingjun lit three sticks of incense and inserted his hand into the incense burner on the altar.
Queen Jade Xian'er held a golden sacrificial inscription, and as she recited one sentence, a light gradually emerged in front of the altar, then became thicker and thicker, and gradually spread into the air.
...
At this time, Li Xiuyuanfang, who was under the old tree, packed the luggage in the wooden house and gently closed the door of the house where the old woman had lived for a whole winter.
One old and one young, step by step, walked towards the stone steps in the mountain.
The moment he put away his guqin and put on his bamboo hats, the old man and the young man disappeared under the consciousness of some people on the mountain.
The old woman looked at Li Xiuyuan's calm appearance and couldn't help but said: "That woman has already started to worship the heaven. Will someone cause trouble?"
"Won't."
Li Xiuyuan did not look at the scene in front of the altar on the top of the mountain, but said quietly: "Countless people are looking forward to a miracle from heaven, unless the Queen has something to say."
The old woman didn't speak, because the two of them were still some distance away from the long stone steps, and she no longer cared about the people on the mountain.
It was different from the Demon Mountain in Shura Heaven. At that time, the Great Demon King wanted to sacrifice the people and army of the entire imperial city, so he and Crow had to hurry.
At the moment, he doesn't know what the woman from the mountain is thinking, and besides, he has already reached the bottom of the mountain, so he won't be anxious anymore.
However, what he didn't expect was that just as the Queen on the top of the mountain started reciting the ritual of offering sacrifices to the sky, the two of them had not yet reached the bottom of the mountain.
"Buzz..." sounded in his ears.
The old woman sighed and said quietly: "This woman seems to have a lot of thoughts. She activated the formation at the bottom of the mountain. I'm afraid she doesn't want the people on the mountain to leave or let us go up."
Li Xiuyuan turned his spiritual consciousness into a sword and wanted to rush into the newly activated magic circle at the foot of the mountain. Unexpectedly, "Dang, Dang, Dang!" A burst of lightning and stone fire bounced his sword energy back.
"It's interesting that thousands of people on the mountain were treated as lambs."
At this moment, Li Xiuyuan thought of the great formation in Black Rock City and the altar on Demon King Mountain.
Is it possible that the same situation will happen again on Fairy Island in the East China Sea?
Thinking of this, Li Xiuyuan withdrew his consciousness because he didn't want to break the formation at this time.
While continuing to move forward, he said: "She can stop others but she can't stop me. Senior, let's continue."
Until this moment, he didn't even take out the Samsara Sword and the wooden bow. For him, if he didn't want to break such a large formation, he only needed to make a small opening.
The old woman smiled faintly: "Are you, a little ant like you, going to bite a hole in that big formation?"
Li Xiuyuan didn't make a sound, but moved the corner of his mouth, but he reminded Helian Mingyue on the mountain that since there was a magic circle at the bottom of the mountain, there was probably more than one on the mountain.
What on earth is this woman going to do? Who are you trying to plot against?
Is it possible that his brother-in-law and sister-in-law, along with the thousands of monks on the mountain, are being plotted together as sacrifices to the heavens?
Helian Mingyue was shocked when she heard this. She thought that this woman would not give up easily with her and Gongyang, but she did not expect that she would actually set up a large formation on the mountain and down the mountain.
She would definitely not believe this if she heard it from someone else.
But Li Xiuyuan was different. There were several magic formations placed up and down the mountain of Yunqi Temple, but Li Xiuyuan at the foot of the mountain had no need to disturb her mind at this time.
After thinking about it, Helian Mingyue asked softly: "So, you can't come up?"
A smart woman, even asking questions made Li Xiuyuan have to admire her little thought, but she didn't even ask whether she could break through this formation.
Li Xiuyuan smiled lightly: "What do you think? I've been waiting all winter."
"I'm waiting for you."
Helian Mingyue was more straightforward. After speaking, he turned to Gongyang Bo and said, "That guy is going up the mountain. He said that your sister built a large formation at the bottom of the mountain and has activated it."
When Gongyang Bo heard this, he was speechless. After thinking for a while, he replied: "Is it possible that he wants to trap all the merchants and monks on the mountain to death, including us?"
"What are you afraid of? Li Xiuyuan and the old man have already gone up the mountain, right?"
"I can't see them."
"Oh, I can't see it either... It turns out that this guy is already so powerful and doesn't want us to see him, so we really can't see him."
"Okay, now that he's here, I can feel relieved."
At this point, Yu Xian'er in front of the altar had finished reciting the sacrificial inscription in her hand and lit it on the candle.
For a moment, the light on the altar shone brightly, and her figure became taller and taller. In the eyes of thousands of people watching the ceremony, the Queen seemed to be about to ascend.
This is the moment they have been waiting for.
The moment the queen was about to take the next step, opening the magic circle on the high platform and offering sacrifices to the sky.
A figure who was not tall and even somewhat thin stepped on the long stone steps and stepped on the bluestone slab on the large square at the top of the mountain.
Gongyang Bo, who separated from the crowd, was walking in front of Helian Mingyue and Yun Qingjiao.
Helian Mingyue and Yun Qingjiao, who were following him, had just stopped behind the crowd and stared coldly at the woman with black hair in front of the altar. Decades later, she was still as charming as yesterday.
Thousands of people on and off the auditorium were all surprised when they looked at the man who suddenly appeared in front of them.
They knew the magic circle at the bottom of the mountain, and they also knew that Her Lady Queen would definitely open the magic circle at the bottom of the mountain at this time. So, how did this man come up?
However, they obviously no longer cared about the strange man in front of them.
The queen had already burned the sacrificial inscriptions, and was about to offer sacrifices to heaven. They were so excited that they could not stop trembling even in their prayers.
Some people were already kneeling on the viewing platform, begging God to send spiritual rain.
Only Yu Xian'er in front of the altar looked at the man in front of her, obviously flustered and a little angry, because she was very dissatisfied with Gong Yang Bo's performance today.
She was on a high altar, but at that moment she released a powerful pressure, heading towards the man she missed day and night.
